scholarly journals Women’s Rights and Colonization in The Short Story of The Jakarta Post

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ferdinal Ferdinal
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Postcolonial Criticism ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Rights Issues

Right after the fall of Suharto’s regime, Indonesia has undergone tremendous changes in almost all aspects of life: political, economic, social, cultural, and possibly ideological lives. The changes bring new breaths to Indonesian future, especially in the area of women’s rights. This article discusses the issue of women’s rights in Indonesia based on a textual analysis. The purpose of this writing is to investigate the representation of women’s rights issues in some stories of The Jakarta Post, one of the most popular media which has also played an important role in popularizing and spreading such issues. Postcolonial criticism is used to see how the stories portray the issues of women’s rights, particularly gender equality and marginality. To study the issues, this analysis looks at two short stories: “Gender Equality” by Iwan Setiawan and “Street Smart Mom” by Eric Musa Piliang.  The two stories represent the fact that Indonesian women fight against colonization for their rights in some different ways, as a smart wife and a poor street mother. The stories signal that Indonesian women struggle to escape from colonization through some actions such as moving forward to the center of power by maintaining superiority against men and living their lives as they wish in spite of being poor.

scholarly journals Filming the Motherland: Gendered Violence and Pakistani Female Empowerment in Dukhtar and My Pure Land

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zainabb Hull
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Critical Reception ◽  
Female Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Pure Land ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
Rights Issues

The revival of Pakistani cinema in the mid-2000s has heralded several successful films tackling relevant social issues, such as national identity, terrorism, and gendered violence. Pakistani filmmakers both at home and in the diaspora are using cinema to address women's rights issues within Pakistani communities worldwide whilst challenging simplistic and imperialist western perceptions of Pakistan and its people. This article analyses two recent female-led films from diasporic filmmakers: Afia Nathaniel’s Dukhtar (2014) and Sarmad Masud’s My Pure Land (2017). Each film features female leads navigating gendered violence, patriarchal oppression, and Pakistani cultural identity to explore the filmmakers’ own complicated relationships with the ‘motherland’, expressing a sense of belonging and nostalgic affection for Pakistan whilst holding the nation accountable for upholding patriarchal cultural values, in order to reveal paths towards gender equality and female empowerment in global Pakistani communities. Positive critical reception within Pakistan highlights both the difficulties faced by filmmakers addressing women's rights issues and the desire for Pakistani social dramas, indicating new possibilities within the media landscape. There remains a lack of insight into audience reception to new films addressing women's rights issues, and future research must examine how this new cinema might provoke and inspire positive social change within real world communities and for Pakistani women around the world. Nonetheless, in the production and global critical reception of Dukhtar and My Pure Land, there is evidence of Pakistan’s slow progress and growing enthusiasm for gender equality and safety, and of challenges to oppressive western perceptions of Pakistan that lead to paternalistic and racist treatment of South Asian women. These films prioritise the need for social change to come from within the community, offering up possible role models and futures for a Pakistan that is safe and fair for people of all genders.

Islam, Gender, and Democracy in Comparative Perspective

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Muslim Countries ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Shed Light

This volume reframes the debate around Islam and women’s rights within a broader comparative literature. It examines the complex and contingent historical relationships between religion, secularism, democracy, law, and gender equality. Part I addresses the nexus of religion, law, gender, and democracy through different disciplinary perspectives (sociology, anthropology, political science, law). Part II localizes the implementation of this nexus between law, gender, and democracy, and provides contextualized responses to questions raised in Part I. The contributors explore the situation of Muslim women’s rights vis-à-vis human rights to shed light on gender politics in the modernization of the nation and to ponder over the role of Islam in gender inequality across different Muslim countries.

scholarly journals The truth sometimes shocks: Dismissal, censorship and imprisonment have not deterred this champion of the cause of women and critic of Arab society

1982 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 18-20
Author(s):  
Nawal el Saadawi
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Innocent Child

Short story about a village girl's wedding night by a leading Egyptian champion of women's rights ‘Isn't the man who slaughters his sinned sister the same who makes sin with the sisters of men? Isn't the wolf who fools the innocent child the same as the father who locks and ties up his daughter? Isn't the man who is unfaithful to his wife the same man tho kills his wife to protect his honour? Isn't the wife who is unfaithful to her husband the same woman who gossips about other women? Isn't the society that broadcasts the love songs the same society that puts the noose around everyone that falls in love?’

The Fragmentation of Gender in Post-Invasion Iraq

2017 ◽  
pp. 426-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahra Ali
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Iraqi Women ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Political Economic

This chapter explores the evolution of gender and women’s rights struggles in Iraq since the establishment of the Personal Status Code in 1959 and shed light on the ethnosectarian fragmentation of women’s legal rights in post-invasion Iraq. The chapter argues that in order to explore women’s rights and conditions of lives in Iraq it is essential to explore the evolution of women’s rights and gender issues historically and through a complex lens of analysis rather than applying a predefined argument involving an undifferentiated “Islam” or age-old gender-based violence. It seeks to show that gender issues have been entangled with issues of nationhood, religion, and with the nature of the political regime since the very foundation of the Iraqi Republic in 1958. First, the chapter examines the debates and mobilizations around women’s legal rights in Iraq. Secondly, it highlights the development of political, economic, and military violence since the 1980s and its impact on gender norms and relations. Finally, it analyzes the specific context of ethnosectarian fragmentation in which Iraqi women have lived and mobilized since 2003.

Gender equality in different readings of Islam in post-revolutionary Iran

2018 ◽  
pp. 21-39
Author(s):  
Marziyeh Bakhshizadeh
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Religious Revival ◽  
Islamic Revival ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Revival Movements ◽  
And Gender

This chapter offers an understanding of women's rights and gender equality based on three interpretations of Islam within the context of post-revolutionary Iran. The debate among different interpretations of Islam provides a foundation for the investigation of women's rights and gender equality in various readings of Islam not only in the regional dimensions of Iran, but also in the Islamic world. While some studies and academic discussions tend to use the term fundamentalism to refer to religious revival movements, particularly within Islamic traditions, such discussions often fail to distinguish reformist and other movements within Islam, therefore identifying all Islamic revival movements as fundamentalist or as part of fundamentalist movements.

A Bold Call for Middle Eastern Feminism

2015 ◽  
Vol 114 (776) ◽  
pp. 364-365
Author(s):  
Valentine M. Moghadam
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Sexual Revolution ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Political Reforms

In her new book, Mona Eltahawy argues that a sexual revolution is needed in the region to overcome religious ideologies that oppress women's rights. Without progress toward gender equality, broader political reforms are bound to fail.

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